The Osceola times., 1887-10-22
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

tired from the directory OF the North err
Pacific railroad. Mr.. Willard authorizes
the statement that they are absolutely
untrue.
t. ODELI, assistant general manager
of the Northern Pacific, Eastern division
has resigned and accepted the position OF
general manager OF the Chesapeake &
Ohio at salary of $4,000 year.
THE remains of General Fitzpatrick ar
rived in New York on the 18th.
MISS FANNIE HAYES, daughter OF ex'
President II. B. Hayes, sailed on the l3tl
for the Bermudas on visit to the planta
tion OF her uncle, General Hastings.
THE Civil.Service Commission has or
dered an investigation concerning IN,
enforcement OF the Civll-Service Law
and rules in the Kansas City tMo.) post
Office.
DR. PORTER, president Of the Kay West
(Fla.) Board OF Health, having gone to
Tampa to investigate the epidemic, Sur
geon-General Hamilton has revoked the
order to DIR. Guteras TO make such an in
vestigation.
The London Chronicles correspondent
at Berlin says he has learned from an un-
impoachab.c authority that Che condition
Of the German Crown Prince il precarious,
and that DIR. Mackenzlo's treatment has
failed.
CoNsuL-GENFRAL CARDwELL OF Cairo,
Egypt, in q report to the Department Of
State, calls special attention to the sue
cessful labors Of American missionaries in
the valley of the Nile. Nearly six thou
sand native pupils aroin attendance at the
schools that have been established.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has arrived in Lon
don, and the Bulgarian question is once
more revived as public topic.
LAFAyErTE County, Mo-, gives major
ity Of over 1900 against the Local Option
law.
MRS. HuGuEs HM.LErT appeals TO the
Conservatives not to ask her husband to
:. resign his seat in the British Parliament.
Z REv. DAVID Il. KERR, ID, D., for many
years editor of the United Presbyterian,
. died Mt Pittsburgh, Pa, on tho 18th.
SECRETARY Lamar, IN the case OF the
United States VS.. Pearsall and Freeman,
involving valuable mineral entries of
kplacer claims IN Colorado, has decided in
favor OF the claimants.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL Mont
GoMERY, of the Interior Department, has
gone to California for the purpose of rep
resenting the Government in the prosecu-
ton of what is known as the Benton syn
dcate for fraudulent entry Of large tracts
Of land In Southern California.
GENERAL BoULANoER, who Is under arr
rest, is likely to resign and be elected to
the French General Assembly. II is rer
ported in Paris that he has already re-
signed, but this Is discrodted in disiuter.
ested circles.
THE Department OF state has been Off
cially advised OF the appointment of Sir
Charles Tupper, OF Canada, as one of the
British fishery commissioners. This last
appointment, Il is believed, completes the
British commission, which will con sist of
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Lionel West,
the British Minister TO the United States,
and Sir Charles Tupper.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
attached his signature to his peremptory
resignation of that position early ON the
morning of the 18TH He will withhold the
presentation Of this document to the as
sembly pending its action upon a report
Of the committee on laws which was sub
mitted just before adjournment on the
14th.
DIR. A. NJ. HAMBIIN, one of those evicted
in O'Brien County, Ia, says that the half
has not been told Of the horrors OF the
evictions. Many Of the families are living
on the public highways in tents made of
quilts and sheets. Old men of seventy,
MANNED soldiers and widows, have lost
their homes and are sleeping ON the cold
ground. The British syndicate has taken
their teams and milch cows TO pay the cost
of the evictons. There were l20 families
evicted.
THE appointment Of Sir Charles Tupper
as member Of the Anglo. American Fish
cries Commission does not give unqualified
satisfaction to the Canadians. A more
liberal minded representative would have
been preferred.
JUDGE II. I. ELLETr. who made the
welcoming address to President Cleve-
land at Memphis, Tom, ON the 18th,
dropped dead on the stand almost imme-
diately afterward. He was eighty years
of age. The incident brought the festivi-
ties of the occasion TO an almost abrupt
termination.
THE majority Of the Paris newspapers
appear TO onsider General Boulanger
"more sinned against than SHINING" in
the War Office scandal sensation.
Mr.. BALFoUR has obtained the consent
Z of the British Cabinet to totally suppress
4 the National League IN Dublin, aud, II he
should see fit, TO extend his prohibtory
operations to the whole Of Ireland.
FRED. DOUGLAS predicts that the Chinese
will soon overrun the United States and
take the place in the popular mind that
has been and is now occupied by the
negro.
DIR. CHARLES l.. WRIGHT. of Hunting
= ton, Ind. surgeon in tho employ of the
Chicago & Atlantic railway, and who was
injured in the recent accident at Kouts
Ind, has resigned. DIR. Wright claims
that he was denied permission by the
company to commun nicate by telegraph
with his friends in relation 20 his injury.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, editor OF the
Christian Union, has been chosen tempo.
rary pastor of Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn.
THE British Government has decided TO
hold police inquiry into the conduct Of
Magistrate Irwin and Inspector Brown
rigg at Mitchellstown. Ireland.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland and
Colonel Lamont were the guests of Gener-
al II. w. Jackson, at Belle Meade, six
miles from jackson, Tenn, on the 10th.
SECRETARY or STATE CHAPLEAU oi
Canada openly repudiates the idea Of
commercial union between that govern
ment and the United States.
REV. CBAs. A. BERRY, Of the Queen
Street Congregational Church. Wolver-
hampton, England, preached In Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, ON the 10th. He was
greeted at both morning and evening
services by large congregations, who
seemed 10 be pleased with his efforts.
Ir is announced that Mike Kelly, the
famous ball player, has signed a contract
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